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13 Minutes

Original title: Elser
  • 20152015
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  • 1h 54m
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7.0/10
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Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)
In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
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In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for decidi... Read allIn November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.
IMDb RATING
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9.5K
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    • Oliver Hirschbiegel
    • Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
    • Fred Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christian Friedel
    • Katharina Schüttler
    • Burghart Klaußner
    • Oliver Hirschbiegel
    • Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
    • Fred Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christian Friedel
    • Katharina Schüttler
    • Burghart Klaußner
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    • 27User reviews
    • 104Critic reviews
    • 58Metascore
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    Felix Eitner and Katharina Schüttler in 13 Minutes (2015)
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    Anna Unterberger and Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)
    Katharina Schüttler, David Zimmerschied, and Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)
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    Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)
    Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow, and Christian Friedel in 13 Minutes (2015)

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    Christian Friedel
    Christian Friedel
    • Georg Elser
    Katharina Schüttler
    Katharina Schüttler
    • Elsa
    Burghart Klaußner
    Burghart Klaußner
    • Arthur Nebe
    Johann von Bülow
    Johann von Bülow
    • Heinrich Müller
    Felix Eitner
    • Hans Eberle
    David Zimmerschied
    David Zimmerschied
    • Josef Schurr
    Rüdiger Klink
    • Erich
    Simon Licht
    • SS Obergruppenführer
    Cornelia Köndgen
    Cornelia Köndgen
    • Maria Elser
    Martin Maria Abram
    • Ludwig Elser
    Michael Kranz
    Michael Kranz
    • Franz Xaver Lechner
    Gerti Drassl
    • Lore
    Lissy Pernthaler
    • Protokollführerin
    Valentina Repetto
    • Brunhilde
    Anna Unterberger
    Anna Unterberger
    • Anna
    Anton Algrang
    • Dr. Hübner
    Michael Ehnert
    • Kubjureit
    Udo Schenk
    Udo Schenk
    • Adolf Hitler
      • Oliver Hirschbiegel
      • Léonie-Claire Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
      • Fred Breinersdorfer(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      While Hitler is speaking, he is handed a note mentioning that bad weather will ground his plane. It is not explained in the movie, but Hitler cut short his speaking engagement (and avoided Elser's bomb) so that he could catch a train instead.
    • Goofs
      In the first flashback to 1932, two young boys are shown trading cards of airplanes. One of the cards shows a Messerschmidt Bf-109, which one boy also calls a "Messerschmidt". But the Bf-109 had its first flight only in 1935 and entered service not until 1937, so it would not have been featured in a 1932 trading cards game.
    • Quotes

      Georg Elser: If humanity isn't free, everything dies with it.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Evening Urgant: Alexander Petrov/Kadebostany (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      The Internationale
      (Left wing anthem)

    User reviews27

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    6/10
    A man who tried to rewrite the history.
    This is a German film based on a real person called Georg Elser who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the 1939. From the director of 'Diana' fame and it was one of the contenders from the Germany to represent the nation at the 88th American Academy Awards, but in the end it lost the bet to another WWII drama. So if you are interested in the WWII, then you should try it. But remember this is not a war film like guns and bombs, it just takes place around the same time.

    The film reveals something we never knew before. Georg Elser is a carpenter by profession and a part time musician. Hails from the rural Germany who falls in love with a married woman. But the real story begins after he failed his mission, later he caught by police and tortured to confess his crime. Then it takes us a few years back and reveals part by part his life and the event related to the opening scene.

    Basically, this film ends before beginning to take off. Precisely to say, when the Elser's plan flopped/ended, the film almost lost its strength. Just like the title says, that 13 minutes of the film was something like a short film. But what comes later were different than all the information I read about the film. So the rest of the film was an interrogation that tells both his personal life, as well as how he prepared to kill the Hitler and the reason behind it.

    Little slow and mostly boring, nonetheless inspired by a real person makes this watchable. Because what he attempted was not some silly thing. If, if he had succeeded that, the history would have been rewritten. Maybe the aftermath of that, who knows what the world would have looked like right now without the WWII. The tension might have still persisted, but kind of impossible to predict anything particular about that theory.

    "If humanity is not free, everything dies with it."

    Anyway, Georg Elser's personal life was not that interesting, but I am disappointed about this film that failed to disclose his intellectual undertaking to show us on the screen very inspiring way or maybe you can say thrill way. Because those parts comes and goes like a shooting star, I mean that fast. The remaining film drags mostly with drama. Since the storytelling was split into frequent of the present timeline (1939) and flashbacks, some of the important events kept for the final revelation, but did not strike.

    Some of the scenes were raw, but not as much as a few the WWII films I had seen. The problem for me was it is not sentimental as it should have been. Because many events how they have turned out should have had left the strong feeling on the viewers. It's not the bad performances, I actually liked everybody, but the screenplay was not designed for its full potential. I don't know what is the original source material, but it was like they hurried to make it without more research.

    When a film is a biography, I don't care about the entertainment. But I always look for the reason why it deserved to be a film. In that perspective, this film interested me for just one reason and that's I already mentioned somewhere in the above. I did not like as much as the critics and some of the film fanatics did. All I wanted was it to be a little clever, maybe a fine editing to place the scenes at the right spots would have saved it. I think I can suggest it, just to know about this person, but other than the its nothing very impressive. Mostly anybody would predict the story, especially the conclusion.

    6.5/10
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    • Oct 24, 2016

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      • June 30, 2017 (United States)
      • Germany
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      • Lucky Bird Pictures
      • Delphi Medien
      • Philipp Filmproduction
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